Kim,you are being led down the garden path. goldman Sacs has given your savior Obama 750,000$$$$ coroprate dollars maybe lots more. Think your man of change will go after crime and greed ? Think again. He will never bit the hand that feeds him. Welcome to the Obamanation where palosi and Berney Franks will take you for all you've got. You still have a chance to vote for real change,real hope and a real democratic society. If you are wise enough to vot for McCain. I think you are to intoxicated by lies though!

Otherwise, until your pot grower buddies start forking over 30-50% of THEIR incomes, or you take a stand saying they should, you don't have any ground to stand on telling people to pay more, or that it is "patriotic" to pay taxes, or that those who don't want their taxes raised are "selfish."

That's Obama's world, take from those who are already paying taxes and give it to those who are not. Reverse the "Bush" tax cuts, which no one is telling you you will put millions of people BACK onto the tax rolls, not just a raise - then RAISE taxes some more - his "rich" people limit is now at $120,000 per FAMILY, not per wage earner (according to Bill Richardson, isn't it) - then you have Obama's statements that you "will pay less under his plan than you did under Reagan" - analyze that, Eric - under Reagan the tax rates were max 70%. They had loopholes back then, those were all removed when they LOWERED the max to 50% and then the current 36%.

PLUS STATE TAX, Capital Gains Tax, the Inheritance Tax, Excise Tax, Sales Tax, and all the little taxes you pay on your phone bill - the list in endless.

So you're going to hand over more money to the jerks who have already fucked over the entire nation - Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi in charge - do you trust them to spend it wisely?

Otherwise, until your pot grower buddies start forking over 30-50% of THEIR incomes, or you take a stand saying they should, you don't have any ground to stand on telling people to pay more, or that it is "patriotic" to pay taxes, or that those who don't want their taxes raised are "selfish."

I firmly believe the growers should pay much more into the community than they do. The younger generation isn't putting the money into the nonprofits as their parents did.

But better yet, legalize it, and sin tax it to boot. Fine with me.

As for the taxes, right now, in case you hadn't noticed, we're on the verge of a depression. It's going to require Keynesian spending to pull us out of it, and this time I'd like to see it done without a war, hot or cold. That's going to require revenues, and as we're learning, the tax breaks we've given the upper classes have not resulted in economically stimulating investment, any more than it did in the early 1980s before Reagan started pushing huge military spending.

The essence of government is the protection of wealth. If there was no wealth, we would hardly need government. The wealth is the primary beneficiary of government. It should foot the bill. In the meantime, spreading the wealth around is not only just, it's good for the economy. Then business has to go after the consumer for the money, and it can only do that by offering the consumer something in return. Giving the money directly to what Hayek called "the productive class" with no strings attached does not necessarily result in productive investment, contrary to Hayek and Friedman.

McCain is losing because he can't differentiate himself from Bush on economic policy. It's absolutely the wrong time to put conservatives in charge. We need a major restructuring of the economy and conservative measures aren't going to do it.

"paying into the community" is not the same as TAXES, Eric. And people who pay taxes ALSO pay into the community.

You really do live in a strange reality.

Yeah. This is just the right time to turn the government over to a socialist, communist, totalitarian "community organizer" with no record and no morals.

One who won't release his college records, who fights the release of his birth certificate in court, who has something like 20% of his money having to be returned because it is illegal, who buses people in to make sure he wins - yeah. That's just what we need.

Better watch out, Eric, as a lawyer, you presumably make enough to make you one of the "rich."

"paying into the community" is not the same as TAXES, Eric. And people who pay taxes ALSO pay into the community.

To tax it you have to legalize it Rose. I support legalization, therefor I support taxation - no problem.

As for Obama being a communist, socialist (I wish), totalitarian (haven't heard that one yet), community organizer (for shame, he took a public interest job in lieu of a big money firm position), well, whatever. He's probably going to win, and you'll be better off for it.

I also don't know where you got the "didn't release his birth certificate." There is a long line of journalist, including those as factcheck.org, which have held and copied the certificate.

Paul's Out.

Paul Gallegos

The Humboldt County Grand Jury found that "Weak leadership and poor managerial practices" have undermined the office... Implicit in all evidence gathered by the Grand Jury - including interviews with the D.A. - is the unfortunate truth that the D.A. exhibits a limited understanding of how things are done in the department" Gallegos "lacks the global perspective needed to keep the department operating efficiently," and quotes an unnamed staff member as saying, "The D.A. does not fully understand the functionality of many of the things we do here" - Years later, in his own words: "I’m not an administrator, they didn’t elect me to be an administrator, they elected me to make sure this office runs..."

It’s still heresy to say it out loud, but the great secret of the Gallegos constituency is how many people in the camp are, truth be told, sick to death of the man. I have seen radical lefty Humboldt State professors roll their eyes and gag when his name comes up. I have talked to more than one person on his endorsement list who half-hates himself for allowing his name to be used. The question is: What will these people do in the privacy of the voting booth?Hank Sims

Gallegos on Measure T

6 minute VIDEO Click on the pic Anonymous: Gallegos looks and sounds like he either had been drinking or hitting off his bong. What a nut.... Anonymous: My favorite Gallegos moment in this snippet is when he says he supports Measure T for two reasons and holds up one finger to emphasize the point.

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Douglas & Zanotti

CASE TOSSED The district attorney misrepresented the law and failed to provide evidence of former Eureka Police Chief David Douglas' and Lt. Tony Zanotti's innocence during a criminal grand jury inquiry into the 2006 shooting death of Cheri Lyn Moore, defense attorneys argued in court documents filed Thursday... ”Our judicial system stands as a real and necessary check on the grand jury indictment process,” one of the documents states. “This court has the authority and the means by which to halt this prosecution, which is justified neither by the undisputed facts, nor by the law.”

Gallegos has taken what was "arguably the state's best small DA's office, with a cutting edge CAST program that "trained the trainers"... into a bunch of time serving bureaucratic wannabee brown nosers, lightly sprinkled with a couple of earnest learners who are sure to split as soon as possible.

One weeps for Max Cardoza who won Angellel, and for Maggie Fleming who won so many impossible victories. Mired in Humboldt for personal reasons, they have to suffer the ignominy of working for Paul, with Yougo, yes, yougo who has freed more people as a prosecutor than he did as a defense attorney. As has Paul. Anonymous comment

Gallegos has answers for everything. I’ve never met anyone whose answers came so quickly, with such polish - except about his law school(s). He likely sounded the same way when promising to get prosecutors off their anachronistic “at will” status and onto civil service status. It never happened. Indeed, he told them, “Disloyalty will not be tolerated” – a real morale builder.

He sounds great. What progressive doesn’t want to believe in him? But it’s a myth. He’s an intellectual lightweight and self-aggrandizer who tries to please everybody with glib answers. Jim Fahey for The Arcata Eye

The Humboldt County DA's office is one of the most exciting prosecutorialoffices in California.

Its District Attorney, Paul Gallegos, is willing to charge anyone who commitswrongdoing--no matter how wealthy, sacrosanct, or ruthless. He believes in total equality before the law. He also plans to be innovative in promoting programs of prevention and treatment. He wants to make it the best prosecutorial office of its size in the nation.... Gallegos' Help Wanted ad

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1980 Murder

Gallegos' OWN Quotes

★ ...District Attorney Paul Gallegos said he believes the statute of limitations clock, even on misdemeanors, doesn't start running until law enforcement knows or reasonably should have known of the offense. In this case, Gallegos said, that means the statute of limitations would not run out at least until Feb. 8, 2009, or one year after Gundersen's arrest and the discovery of the photographs in question...

★ “I never said that the information was not available under the Freedom of Information Act. Quite the contrary, I informed you that our use of force policy is not a public record.” Paul Gallegos to the Times Standard 5/25/07

★ ...“One is that I do everything to make people happy which means I don’t stand for anything except for just something,” he said. “The other is I stand for something and I try to be a leader and take some people, a group of people, a community someplace and I say guess what folks, this is who I am. I stand for your beliefs. We share these beliefs or we don’t. You get the option to judge that. This is who I am and I am committed to leading us this place, wherever it is...." Eureka Reporter Gallegos defends record, looks ahead 7/3/2005

★ Note the difference between what he SAID, and what he DOES..."...So what are these issues? Top on Gallegos' list is the proliferation of "garbage cases," small-time crimes and overcharged cases that he said are clogging up the court system.

Garbage cases, said Gallegos, come in two forms: Cases that would lose if actually brought to trial and cases that are overcharged for the crimes committed. The idea behind filing both kinds of garbage, he said, is to get the defendant to plead guilty, netting a conviction without having to go into court.

Again, the IRONY is astounding! Look at what he SAYS, and then think about what he DOES! "Probably 95 percent of the cases that are filed plead guilty. In fact, there are a lot of cases that are filed on the assumption they will plead guilty, because of the time and expense involved in defending them. But these cases shouldn't even be filed in the first place, because if they were challenged, they would lose," Gallegos said. Better yet: If they weren't filed at all, it would save the county time and money...." North Coast Journal 2/21/02 Too bad he didn't take his own advice.

★ “Tim’s a stud,” he said. “He really is; anyone would be stoked to have him.” Gallegos on his second in command right hand man Assistant District Attorney Tim Stoen. (Former second in command right hand man to Jim Jones/People's Temple.)

NOT GUILTY!

"This is not the crime of the century. I'll concede that entirely." Humboldt County DA Paul Gallegos on the Toddler Wandering case, where he threw the full weight of the law against an innocent father. The jury took a couple of minutes to sign the papers needed to find him not guilty. Only one example of Gallegos' schizophrenic pattern of pursuing cases.

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"Helping Crush Progressivism" - ie: exposing the predatory litigious orgs and those who seek power for power's sake.... The original purpose of watchpaul is to post important documents relating to Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos and his handlers who seek to gain power through the acquisition of political offices. This includes, but is not limited to, the manipulations of "Humboldt Watershed Council," "EPIC," "Baykeeper," and other activist groups - the unregulated orgs. It also includes the master manipulators, such as Richard Salzman and Ken Miller.

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The Eureka Reporter ceased publication and pulled all online archives. Links to ER stories will no longer work. Some stories have been saved on watchpaul.articles, the rest can, hopefully, be accessed at the Humboldt State University Library.